Recent changes in dpkg

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:23, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
<dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 07:13, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 24/05/10 05:05, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>>>
>>>   * dpkg-gensymbols offers new ways to manage symbols files (matching C++
>>>     symbols by their demangled name, matching symbols with regular
>>>     expressions) thanks to Modestas Vainius.
>>
>> This should be useful for people using symbols files.
>>
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I will try this out with one of my libraries.
> It would be interesting to generate symbols for a few versions and to
> check weather api/abi was broken.
>
> API is easy (function removed or arguments changed) what about ABI is
> there a rule of thumb for that?

ABI is not so easy. KDE has an ABI compatibility guide here
http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C++


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler